At the Oil & Fat Factory in Kattakurgan, Kamoliddin Khaitov smiles and expresses delight with the new boilers that were commissioned in 2014. As Head of the Boilers’ Facility at the factory, Kamoliddin...

There are about 1.34 million diesel-powered irrigation pumps across Bangladesh, mostly for farms beyond the reach of conventional power grids. Most years, they spend about $900 million on diesel to fuel...

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2016 – The World Bank Group is moving to help India deliver on its unprecedented plans to scale up solar energy, from installing solar panels on rooftops to setting up massive solar...

Suva, Fiji, May 24, 2016 – The Lal family live in Nakasi, a town about 30 minutes’ drive from of Suva, capital of Fiji. While many Fijians do not consider this a ‘rural’ area, they are a kilometer (0.6...

Two weeks after 175 government representatives came together in New York City to sign the historic Paris Climate Agreement, leaders are gathering in Washington, D.C. to advance concrete actions that will...

The road to Zantiebougou, nearly 200 kilometers south of Mali’s capital Bamako, is unpaved, difficult to navigate, and the only way in and out of the small village. The commute gets trickier at night when...

Energy underpins every aspect of economic development. The world acknowledged that by adopting a dedicated UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) that aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, modern...

KAFFRINE, January 5, 2016 – In the region of Kaffrine, where electricity, jobs, and natural resources are scarce, there is a bubbling optimism despite current hardships. Change is in the dusty hot winds,...

NGUDU, September 8, 2015 – For Boaz Pius, there was no job more alienating than being the district water engineer for an urban area that had access to water for just three hours a day – or not at all....

Nothing helped solar electricity kits for homes succeed in Bangladesh as much as the light emitting diodes (LEDs) people used with them. The more energy efficient lighting source coupled with the easy-to-use...

Nearly 2.9 billion people – more than India and China put together—still use polluting fuels like wood and coal to cook and heat their homes, at a huge cost to the society, in terms of health, environmental...

Climate change is fundamentally a development issue. It threatens to exacerbate poverty and hurt economic growth. At the same time, how countries grow and the investments they make to meet the energy,...

November 24, 2014 – A pilot tool launched by the World Bank Group will help developed and developing countries further their sustainable energy goals by providing a snapshot of the policy and regulatory...

Myanmar has one of the lowest electrification rates in the world. Even with gains in recent years, only 33 percent of the population has an electricity connection. While this rate is higher for the major...

Out of an almost record lending total of $9.445 billion, over two-thirds of the World Bank Group’s energy financing for FY14 was concentrated in regions facing the largest energy deficits – Sub-Saharan...

There is hardly a developing or transition economy in which the World Bank Group and the European Union do not work together to provide cohesive support. As such, our partnership often delivers unique,...

Every year, whole families in the rural Kutch region of the Indian state of Gujarat await the end of the rainy season, when they make their trek to the salt-rich Thar desert. Tens of thousands of men,...

Cities now consume about two-thirds of the world’s energy, and are responsible for about 70 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions. These proportions are growing as rapid urbanization drives soaring demand...